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Around the region: Public workshop on extension of 9B

ATLANTIC BEACH

Congressional award honors 6Congressman Ander Crenshaw recently presented the Congressional Award Bronze Medal for public service to six Atlantic Beach students. The students, either attending or graduated from Fletcher High School, have worked over the past seven months with Beaches Habitat for Humanity. They are: Destiny Bronson, Chelsey Causey, Eric Ercolono, Jeremiah Hampton, Ariana Jones and Jessica Ocampo.

CLAY

School Board personnel reviewThe School Board is holding a workshop at 4 p.m. Tuesday to review teacher and administrative personnel allocations for the 2013-14 school year. The district is eliminating 77 teaching positions and an as yet undetermined number of administrative/clerical positions. Attrition will account for many of the cuts, district and teacher union officials said. The workshop will be at Fleming Island High School Teacher Inservice Center, 2233 Village Square Parkway.

GREEN COVE SPRINGS

Supervisor of Elections Office movingThe county’s Supervisor of Elections Office is moving beginning Wednesday to the former Robert’s Chevrolet building at 500 N. Orange Ave., in Green Cove Springs. Benefits will include a separate early voting entrance and space for poll worker training. The new building will also save taxpayers about $36,000 annually in rent from its current spot. Renovations were paid for by the property owners. The move will continue through April. Phone numbers and the mailing address, P.O. Box 337, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043, will remain the same. For more information, contact (904) 269-6350 or www.clayelections.com.

FERNANDINA BEACH

Wild Nite features Audubon speakerBirder alert! Wild Amelia’s Wild Nite speaker Tuesday is Eric Draper, Audubon of Florida executive director, who will discuss Florida’s coastal birds. The free program begins at 7 p.m. at the Atlantic Avenue Recreation Center. Draper became executive director of Audubon of Florida in 2009, a year after he was awarded the National Audubon Society’s highest honor, the Charles H. Callison Award of professional distinction. For more information, go to www.wildamelia.com.

ST. JOHNS

Public workshop on extension of 9BA proposed $81 million four-lane roadway south of Interstate 95 into northwest St. Johns County will be discussed Tuesday at a public workshop by the Florida Department of Transportation. The workshop about the extension of Florida 9B from I-95 to the St. Johns Parkway (C.R. 2209) will be from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott, 14402 Old St. Augustine Road in Jacksonville. The new road is designed to relieve congestion at the interchanges of I-95 and C.R. 210 and I-95 and Old St. Augustine Road. For more information, go to www.sr9b.com.